About Us

Over the last twenty-one years, Radiant Technologies, Inc. has established the worldwide standards for electrical evaluation of ferroelectric materials of all types. Radiant continues to sell the most sophisticated test equipment for these materials and their applications. Ferroelectric ceramics are one of the foundations of modern society. They are found everywhere in everyday life: electronic equipment, cell phones, medical diagnostic instruments, cameras, and military sensors. Radiant makes its own ferroelectric materials and can now transfer these various functions into integrated circuit scale devices, greatly reducing their cost while greatly increasing their quality and functionality. The key to this strategy is an integrated ferroelectric device manufacturing process developed over the last decade that can support product development and sales. Today, Radiant offers this capability as the only integrated ferroelectric device foundry in the United States. In the future, Radiant will offer its own products envisioned and designed in-house.

Radiant's advanced ferroelectric technology rests upon three legs: 1) Radiant's unique integrated ferroelectrics manufacturing process, 2) Radiant's position as the premier test equipment company in the world for ferroelectric materials, and 3) Radiant's proprietary model for the physics of ferroelectric devices. Radiant's test equipment and procedures were created and refined on its ferroelectric process line, making them realistic and practical. In turn, Radiant's thin ferroelectric film process is one of the most advanced in the world from the proper use of Radiant's test equipment in refining film properties and reliability. Both the testers and the process are designed around a powerful physical model of the ferroelectric capacitor, a model that has been tested and proven continually with the testers in the fabrication process. Now that the fabrication process has matured, Radiant is ready to turn all of these tools to the manufacturing of integrated ferroelectric products, a first in the United States.   

The founder of Radiant Technologies is Joseph T. Evans, Jr. Joe Evans graduated first in his class in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Academy in 1976. After pursuing a career as a Jet Instructor Pilot, Mr. Evans completed his graduate work in optical control theory at Stanford University.

As a principal investigator at the Air Force Laboratories at Kirkland Air Force Base, Mr. Evans worked closely with scientists from Sandia Laboratories. During this collaboration, Mr. Evans realized that new materials were needed to improve or replace the capabilities of traditional silicon based components. Mr. Evans became convinced that in order to fully assess the characteristics of these new materials (ferroelectric materials, etc.), proper evaluation technology was essential. The cutting edge work that resulted from this conviction laid the framework for Mr. Evans' many inventions related to the manufacture of thin ferroelectric film based substrates.

Mr. Evans founded Krysalis Corp in Albuquerque, NM, which built the world's first function CMOS ferroelectric random access memory. In 1988, Mr. Evans founded Radiant Technologies, Inc., where he developed the first commercial test system capable of evaluating the hysteresis of ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials. This tester allowed researchers worldwide to assess the characteristics of the many new electronic manufacturing materials. More importantly, it allowed Mr. Evans and his team at Radiant to parametrically test and improve manufacturing techniques for these temperamental materials. Due to the efforts of Mr. Evans and his team, Radiant Technologies has built a solid reputation for making components with highly specialized, nonlinear materials.